Assange Takes First Step Toward Becoming an Australian Senator

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange took the first step toward becoming a senator on Tuesday when supporters handed his electoral enrollment application to the Australian Electoral Commission in Melbourne, reported Australian daily The Age.

We already knew he wanted to run and we already knew it was going to be hard for him to even be considered eligible, let alone win the seat. But now we know he's indeed going to try.

A group of supporters, including his father and John Shipton, a Sydney architect who's been actively involved with the newly formed Wikileaks Party, filed the paperwork. Shipton noted that this is just "a first step."

Graeme Orr, a professor at the University of Queens…
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